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Newspaper Page TextV Todd Acquitted On Manslaughter Charge I.. Autumn Vote Endorsed For Manager Plan City inuinger government for Kliimalh Fulls wan unanimously recommended lust nlKlit ut meeting held In tlio council chumher nl tliu city hull unci attended ly Uio muyor, members of the city council, tiie city budget committee, the plunnltiK commission and Interested cltl.ens. II whs mo second 01 a series 01 aiscussion meetings, the f ir.nt having been held a week uko. Tlie chiniite, II wus recommended ut lust nlilht'a meeting, ahotild he submitted In the form of a churler amendment to the voter of the city ut the tleneml election to bo held In November -of In Tho By FRANK JENKINS RF.DIN, tliu Russian nuviil lleutenunt accused of buying U. S. mi vit I secrets, In acquitted by u Heuttle Jury of seven men and five wnineii, 11 In iicitiitiil tells the story of the iiltiliulc of the American people towurd the Itumlun people. Our fcelhiK toward them In one of FHIKNDl.lNKSS and kindness. Y7K mind rciniiln cicur-cycd, " however. Redin I nn attracllvp young Russtun. lie him an attractive youiiK wife, lloth neetn to be the kind of people we Amer icans I. IKK. HUT Whatever he In. whatever he think, however likeable he may be, be has to obey the or der! of a despotic government that ha the power of life and death over Ha people. IF II were merely a mutter of the American people getting along with the Kumlun people, there would bo little trouble be tween our countries In the future. Unfortunately, it goes deeper than that, it is the totalitarian Russian CiOVKItNMKNT we have to get along with. VIOST of in will heave a algh of relief over Itedln'a acquit tal. We mustn't forget, how ever, that It can be Interpreted by tho Huiuian GOVKKNMKNT aa n algn of wcukness. Thut would bo dangcruua. t ON tho other aide of the world, In Iluaalan dominated Yugo slavia,, (Jeiicral Mlhnllovlc diea before a firing iiiud less than 48 hour a after his conviction on chargea of treason and collabora tion with the Ciermun alter a trial In which abut-down Amer ican avlalora were not permitted to teatify that he saved their Uvea. It's done differently over there, you ace. fS the domestic front, Mayor Lapham of San Francisco wliui declalvely In a recall elec tion Initiated uguinat him be muse he approved an Increase Irom seven to ten cents In street car farea. (Farea were Increased to keep the city's transportation ayatem solvent.) Laphum Is a business man who has GAINED THE CON FIDENCE OF THE PUBLIC. TN Montana, newcomer Lief Krlckaon acema aa this Is writ ten to be winning the Democratic nomination lor senator from old timer Wheeler, after a hot cam paign. Wheeler waa backed by letters from Trillium mid John L. Lewis lclcii(lmg his labor record. Krlckaon was backed by Jimmy Roosevelt, CIO-I'AC, and Mon Hum's other senator, Murray. Wheeler Is and bus been an Isolationist. Krickaou Is an in tcrnutionullst. TTHE purely political Implica--1 Hon Is plain. STILL Krlckaon Is apparently a GOOD, NEW man. Wheeler has been in the senate a long, long lime. New blood In congress MIGHT have been un issue in the voters' minds. i) flO's United Auto Workers union calls n MEAT STRIKE today. It Is to lust seven days. UAW's president, Kuuthcr, ad dressing u muss meeting In De troit, says the purpose of tho sliiko Is to "restore reasonable prices mid to terrorize prof iteers." T TP in Portland, something less spectacular but even moro significant seems to be happen ing. If. E. Carlson, sccretnry of the Independent Grocers and Meat Dealers association, suys: "House wives here seem to bo sticking to their budgets, and although (('onlliiunS on I'oio t, Col. S) Army Air Force Adopts Sea Mile WASHINGTON, July 17 (P) The army air forces and the navy got together today on a standard mile, In the future, nil navigation by the AAF and the navy will bo based on n nnuticnl mile, ap proximately 60110 feet, which is some 1100 feet longer than the stntulo mile. Tho nautical milo Is tho dis tance of one OOtlanf one degree , tit tho equator and its use facili tates plotting in aeronautical work. Day's Jews Q,IH IMI tfQ,l . ..i-Ww litis your, -inure win oc no litulo primary clot-lion next spring, and tho city has no funds In its budget for a spec-till election. So, unless the meaaure can lie submitted ut the election this full, It will have to go over until the spring of 11148 unless a speeiul stute election should be culled. T h o recommendation lust night wus for city munugcr gov ernment In lis simplest possible form, with the mayor and coun cil merely authorized to employ a manager, fix his compensation und define his dutlea. Committee To Be Fdrmtd A committee to reduce these recommendations to more defi nite form will be named by the mayor and the council. The committee la expected to In clude about 10 members, chosen ao aa to provide a repreaentu tivo croaa section of opinion In tho city. Sentiment for employment of a city manager at lust night's meeting was bused on the be lief thut In this way much more effective administration of the city's alfuirs can bo secured. It was repeatedly asserted In the course of the discussion tnul no private business could oper ate without such an adminis trative head for the co-ordination of details. There woa general agreement that the change, If made, should Interfere aa little aa possible with the existing form of city government. Mayor Oatendorf was present at the meeting, and said he fa vors a city manager and be lieves that under such a system efficiency In rily government can be materially Increased. U. N. Delegate Firm On Peace WASHINGTON, July 17 Ml Senator Austin (R-Vl.) today Joined Senator Vundcnborg (R Mich.) in declaring that the United States will not be "co erced" into international de cisions. "The sooner the world learns that, the better," added Austin, who has been named by Presi dent Truman to represent this country on the United Nations security council. Thus Austin forecast the some sort of firm United States stand in the UN council that Vanden- berg said Secretary of State Byrnes took at the Paris foreign ministers conlcrcnce. The Vermont senator's declar ation came in approving what he called the "frankness" of Vandcubcrg's appraisal of the accomplishments and failures of the big (our meeting. Noting thot there was "appal ling disagreement" among the major powers over the immedi ate and long-range future of Ger many, Vondcnberg culled on Russia to help replace with de pendable friendship the distrust and suspicion lie said now exist between Washington and Mos cow. The Michigan senator added In a formal report to his colleagues yesterday that the Soviets must learn 'tint the Americans "cannot be driven, coerced or pressured" Into decisions and "will not bar gain in human rights and fund amental liberties anywhere on earth." Meat Buyers Sirike Begun By Reuther's CIO Workers By The Associated Press Tho CIO United Auto Work ers projected a meat buyers' strike today to which they in vited the participation of all America's consumers. Fighting the climb in living costs, the big labor union which helped to set up the nation's postwar wage structure sought to mobilize the public against "exorbitant" meat prices, The UAW CIO, calling for co operation from Its own 800,000 members and all other organ ized labor and consumer groups, ordered Its strike to start to day. It Is to last seven days. Worker demonstrations In several cities Tuesday signalled tho start of tho UAWClO's na tionwide "anti-Inflation" c a m paign. Rival AFL unions Joined hands with the CIO's auto union In several Instances. UAW President Walter P. Routhcr, addressing a police-estimated crowd of 40,000 to 50, 000 in Detroit's Cadillac Square, called for the meat buyers' strike in order to restore "rea sonable prices" and to "terror ize profiteers." Rcuther, charging "reaction ary elements" were "hell-bent for tho good old days," said meat was only the union's first target, He said rents and other V. V PHIC- huiailovic Dies Before Firing Squad BELGRADE, July 17 (') Gen, Druja Mihullovic, once ac claimed by the allied world as tho organizer of the Yugoslav resistance movement, died be foro a firing squad at dawn to day less than 48 houra. after h I s conviction on charges of treason and collaboration with the Gcrmuns. Eight other men who were convicted with the former Chetnlk lender were executed at the same time. The executions were carried out privately. Offlciul Yugoslav comment this morning was thut "since the presidium of the Yugoaluv parliament rcpcctcd the uppcala of the accused men, all the di'uth sentences have been cur ried out." The cupltul apparently lost' all Interest once the deulb sen tences were puaaed. Authorities were diffident about Issuing any statement regarding the execu tions, and the attitude was that news of 4he executions were unimportant. Convicted Monday Mihullovic and 23 co-defendants were convicted last Mon day by a Yugoslav military court. He and 10 others were sentenced to death, and the re maining 13 to prison terms ranging from 20 years to 18 months. Two of those sentenced to death and eight of those sen tenced to prison were convicted In absentia. The presidium of the Yugo slav purliunient yesterday re jected appeals for mercy. The trial of the Serbian-born Chclnik leoder und his fellow defendunts began June 10, and was marked by partial "confes aions" on the part of some of tho principals. Mihailovic, how ever, maintained that he. was Innocent of collaboration and (hat ho had fought to drive the nazls from Yugoslavia, Russians Fail To Find Yanks FRANKFURT, Germany. July 17 Russian authorities have told the United States army thnt two United States of- nnnsedlv dlsUD- peared into the Russian zone of Berlin cannot be located, it was announced here omciuuy today. , The missing men are Capt. Harold Cobin of New York City and Newark, N. J., and Lt. George Wyatt, of Oklohoma City. They were last seen on Julv 4 boarding a train for Ornnienburg. a Russinn provi sional headquarters 20 miles north of Berlin. The Russians yesterday re leased two other missing Ameri cans, Warrant Officer and Mrs. Samuel L. Harrison, and the Americans released three Rus sians, two of them army offi cers, who had been held on sus picion of espionage. An army public relations of ficer said the Russians had as serted that they "have been un- nhln tn Innnln Pnhill flnd Wvatt and that to the best of their knowledge they are not being held In the Russian zone." Items would follow unless prices were brought down by act of congress or otherwise re duced. UAW-snonsored rallies took place In Cleveland. Chicago and other cities In the union's "save tho OPA" drive. Congress was urged to restore price control and consumers to restrict their buying to "most urgont necessi ties." Placards carried by demon strators said 'a price Increase is a wage cut" and "we're not buying till prices stop flying." Attendance at the affairs fell below unionists' pre-rally esti mates, but UAW officials said they were satisfied with the turnouts. In Detroit an estimated 20, 000 to 30,000 Chrysler workers left their Jobs temporarily, cut ting production. There were no reports to indicate widespread disruption of work, however. The UAW-CIO says members havo lost much of their wage gains of the postwar period to rising prices. . In that connection Richard T. Leonard, UAW vice president, said wago contracts "must be open for renegotiation if price control Is open for destruction." He addressed the rally In De troit, the union's stronghold. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. Telephone Men Wade Through Maze .,7 - ' V-: A tz fJk ! I i ... . k. . BMojKMSiBMaasU.-.:XiuMA. ..J When telephone service was serving the south suburban area, of lines. Here some ol the crew are matching the pairs. With back to the camera. James E. Wad dell, and left to right. Don Reverman. Bob Haggerty. all of Medford, and Norm Smith, this city, The emergency crew was made up of three from Mediord and three from Klamath Falls. industrial Survey Reveals Only Few Price Increases By The Associated Press The nation's manufacturers said today the price tag on such Items as refrigerators, electric toasters, safety razors, automo biles and many other manufac tured products had remained at OPA levels. The National Association of Manufacturers said it asked 64 factory heads "have you in cr cased any price since June 30 when OPA ended?" -The NAM said six answered affirmatively, and of theae, three said loss of subsidies made an Increase necessary on meat and food products. The NAM said two others replied they had been selling below cost under OPA restrictions and the sixth said higher costs of raw mater ials forced him to raise prices. The NAM said its survey in cluded lumber, metal products, electrical appliances, auto parts, floor furnaces, petroleum, cord age, paper, refrigerators, fiber products, chemicals, air condi tioning equipment, farm machin ery, food products. In New York City, the Com merce and Industry Association said that of 141 companies re sponding to a questionnaire 92 per cent said they had not hiked prices above June 30 OPA ceil ings. In Boston, the Associated In dustries of Massachusetts listed as unchanged the prices of in dustrial paints, safety razors, blank books, waterproof cloth- Lapham Victor In Recall Move SAN FRANCISCO, July 17 m Roger D. Lapham still is mayor of San Francisco. A recall move ment to oust the former steam ship compony executive failed in light ballot yesterday 73.673 for the recall, 105,742 against. Tho recall movement, dating back to the Lapham-approvcd increase this spring of street cur fares from seven to ten cents, was sponsored by a group led by Henry F. Budde, publisher of neighborhood weekly throw away newspapers. Budde early last night con ceded the recall attempt had failed. Lapham is a 62-yearold for mer steamship executive who left a $30,000 a year job to take over the mayoralty at $10,000. Still Mayor ROGER D. LAPHAM disrupted early yesterday afternoon with the cutting of a cable workmen were faced with the terrific task of tagging 400 pairs ing, perfumery, oil, gasoline, machine tools, screws, sheet metal products. In Massachusetts, Retail Gro cers association said its 5000 store operators had not changed prices on dry groceries, canned iruits and canned vegetables. The nation's automobile capital, Detroit, reported new car prices unchanged since OPA was killed. The OPA staff there said a check-shewed prices un changed nn- most clothing, pa per, lurnnure ana eieciricai up- pliances. Detroit s Retail Mer- chants association found that textiles and shoes generally have held. In Portland, Ore., the Jantzen knitting mills said swimming suits, sweaters, snow suits, foun dation garments and similar items were being sold at the old price level, including orders for luture delivery. T. H. Banf icld, president of the Iron Fireman company, manufacturers of heating equip ment, reported no price changes except those on parts author ized by the OPA before it ex pired. C. G. Frantz, president of the Apex Electrical Manufacturing company, said in Cleveland that "there has been no change what soever" in prices of vacuum cleaners, electric washing ma chines and ironers since the end of OPA control. He said manu facturers of these items were retaining OPA prices while awaiting final action on the OPA bill. John Porter, assistant branch manager at Kansas City of the Missouri Associated Industry, leported that a survey of retail ers, wholesalers and manufac turers throughout the state showed that about nine to one expected to hold price lines ex cept for .increased costs which could not be absorbed. Redin Loses In Poker Game SEATTLE. Julv 16 UP The ! luck of Russian Lieut. Nicolal G. Redin wasn't good last night at cards. During- the long vigil while a federal court Jury was delib- eratins- on the espionage-con spiracy charges against him, newspaper reporters started a friendly small stake poker game in an ante-room. The Russian defendant Joined in the game for a few hands, but the- newsmen said he lost consistently. Baseball Scores NATIONAL R H E Boston 0 8 1 -Chicago 10 13 0 Sain, Wright U, wnite U), Johnson (8) and Masl; Chipman and McCullough, Scheffing (9). New York 5 10 0 Pittsburgh 8 12 3 Trinkle, Kress (1), Gee (5); Thompson (7) and Lombard!; Strincevlch and Lopez. AMERICAN First game R H E Chicago 17 0 Boston 3 8 1 Lopat and Tresh; Dobson and Partec. - St. Louis - 2 3 2 New York 3 6 0 Gatehouse and Mancuso; Bcv ens and Robinson. Cleveland 810 1 Philadelphia 2 8 1 Reynolds and Hcgan; Kncrr, Griffith (8) and Rosar. JULY 17. (Telephone Of Wires Repair Crews Work On Cable Cable crews worked through out the night Tuesday and were still laboring today to repair damage done to the main tele phone cable of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company accidentally severed at 1:30 yes terday afternoon by a construc tion employe on S. 6th. Severance of the cable dis rupted service throughout the t south suburban area and threw . mil nf .nmmitdnn ot ljanct 1000 telephones, according to Chuck Scavey, manager of the company. Tlin liierimloW rna uhiph urilt DrohabTv have service by early l evening, included that section east oi b. oin to tne lecterai nous- inn project, and north to the vicinity of Vine. Immediately on discovery of the cable cut, a call was placed to Medford where a special cable crew was dispatched to Klamath Falls. The men arrived here late yesterday afternoon and with the aid of local crewmen, worked all night to repair the damage. The severed cable, known to (CobiIbboS oa.raso 2, Col. C Prime Cattle At New High CHICAGO, July 17 (JP) Against strong resistance which affected lower grades of beef animals, a new price pinnacle was set for prime cattle today ut Union stockyards $26 25 a hundred pounds for Iowa fed steers weighing about 1400 pounds average. Lower grade steers and other slaughter cattle declined 25 to 50 cents from yesterday's marks. Hog prices vaulted to a new modern record price of S22.00 at mid-session after having broken through yesterday's new roof in early sales at $21.50. Reaction set in then, however, and most of the $1.50 to $2.00 advance evaporated in later sales. The top price yesterday was $20.00. This was the third successive day the modern record price for hogs was beaten. A top of $18.50 a hundredweight was paid July l. Arms Combine Secretary Tells Of May Phone Calls WASHINGTON. July 17 (P) Eleanor Hall, a former secretary in the Washington office of a midwest munitions combine, tes tified today that she once lis tened in on a telephone conver sation in which she said Rep. May (D-Ky.) asked the combine's Washington representative: "What about that $3000?" Mrs. Hall was formerly em ployed here by the Erie Basin Metals Products company of El gin, 111., and the Batavia Metal Products company of Batavia, 111. She told the senate investiga ting committee she quit this job because of "very shady busi ness." . She told the committee that In one of frequent telephone con versations between May and Joseph Freeman, Washington sales agent, she was asked to listen in and take notes. May, she said, had originated the call to Freeman. "As 1 recall," she testified, "it was a conversation about lumber something about length and WEATHER NEWS J. If IT, I04O MX. limit IS Mia. . rroclollolloa loot Inn Slrooia nr U Sal IS.il Kormol II. H l.olt foor 8111) Number 10873 Redin Wins Freedom On Spy Charge SEATTLE, July 17 (P) Rus sian Naval Lt. Nicolal G. Redin was acquitted by a federal court jury today on espionage and conspiracy charges. The 30-year-old former Soviet purchasing commission repre sentative here was found inno cent on government charges that he purchased secrets about the USS Yellowstone, a new type destroyer tender, from Herbert G. Kenney, shipyard engineer. The jury of seven men and five women brought in the ver dict on the 22nd day of the trial. They had been out since 1:18 p. m. (PST) yesterday. Indictments against Redin ac cused him on four counts of es pionage and on one count with conspiring with "unknown per sons" to obtain secret informa tion. Deliberated 8H Hours The jury had actually delib erated about 8V hours, not in cluding time for meals and sleep. After the verdict. Defense At torney Irvin Goodman told the court Redin would like to say a few words. The Russian offi cer stepped forward and in a low voice, smiling slightly, said: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your honor, I'd like to thank you for this fair trial in these United States of Amert Judge Lloyd L. Black then discharged Redin formally on the two indictments, and exon erated his bail and bond. As the jurors stepped down and came through the court room door Redin shook hands with each of them and thanked them Dersonally. - - Friends surrounded Redin, of fering their congratulations. Mrs. Redin was not in the court room when the verdict waa re turned. , - . . r, ,. v-i.- Ambush Fatal To U.S. Soldier TRIESTE, July 17 UP Un known machine-gunners am bushed an American army jeep before midnight killing a sol dier and wounding two others. headquarters of the U. S. 88th division announced today. The Americans were attacked four days after a United States patrol killed two Yugoslav sol diers in a brief skirmish near the Morgan demarcation line, which divides the occupation troops of Yugoslavia to the east from American and British forces in the west. While the Americans were be ing ambushed, Belgrade dis patches told of a crowd of 50, 000 persons marching in the Yugoslav capital, chanting the names of Russian Prime Minis ter Stalin and Yugoslav Pre mier Tito. The crowd shouted. "We ask for a revision of the Paris decision on Triesie." 'Trieste to Yugoslavia" and "Yugoslavia as an ally demands justice from the allies." Maj. Gen. Bryant E. Moore, commander of the 88th division, told of the American casualties last night but gave few details.- The announcement said the driver of the jeep, was killed outright by a burst of fire from a sub-machinegun. Another sol dier, was wounded and a lieu tenant was injured when the vehicle cracked up after going out of control. The shooting occurred at about 11:30 p. m. near Largo del Bargo, 14 miles south of Gorizia. sizes that they wanted to re member. At the end of the con versation Mr. May said rather gruffly to Mr. Freeman, 'What about that $3000?' " Another ex-secretary of the companies' Washington office who testified was Mrs. Jean Bates. She said that she handled frequent telephone calls from May and "on several occasions' from the office of Senator Bark- ley (D-Ky.) She said that "two or three times" a week the Washington office of the combine got calls from Rep. May, chairman of the house military committee. The calls from Barkley's of fice, Mrs. Bates added, came from a woman she believed to be the secretary of the senate ma jority leader. Mrs. Bates did not know, she said, whether Barklcy himself took part in the tele phone conversations. Today's mention was the first time that Barkley's name has come into the committee's public pnearings, Judge Says Prosecution Case Faulty Clyde Edward Todd. 38-year- old former Southern Pacific spe cial agent, was found not guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a circuit court Jury which delib erated about 30 minutes last night. He was under indictment in the fatal shooting of Rosa Simmers on January 25. Judge David R. Vandenberg yesterday turned down a lengthy motion irom load attorney for a directed verdict, and present ed the case to the Jury, although he said today that he was cer tain that if Todd had been found guilty the case would have been appealed and this court reversed. The defense attorney, J, C. O'Neill, said that he would have appealed if his client was found guilty. One of O'Neill's points in ask ing a court dismissal of the case was that there Is no such crime recognized in Oregon law as voluntary manslaughter," and the judge upheld him In that although denying the motion. Judge Cites Law This morning Judge Vanden- berg pointed out that the indict ment against Todd referred to section 23-405 of the Oregon law code, and that section reads ". . . if any person shall, with out malice express or implied, and without deliberation, but upon a sudden heat of passion, caused by provocation apparent ty sumcient to make the pas sion irresistible, voluntarily kill another . . . such person shall be deemed guilty of manslaugh- ' ter." The prosecution's evidence In this trial, he said, showed no heat of passion and no fight be tween Simmers and Todd, but witnesses testified to "kidding" and a "horseplay" scuffle. Also, that provision lists the crime as manslaughter, not vol untary manslaughter. The judge said that the state's evidence in this case would have (comtno.0: oa Foao s, col. 61 Early Action Looms On OPA WASHINGTON, July 17 W) Optimism that the price control deadlock may be broken before nightfall was voiced by Senate . Demneratte Trader - Dark lev nf Kentucky today after a senate house c6mmittee canvassed the possibility of compromise. Senator Downey (D-Calif), an other member of the 14-man committee, told reporters "there is a possibility" an agreement can be worked out "before the day ends." . Th White House made public today a declaration from ithe war reconversion advisory board that abandonment of price con trol will leave the nation unpro tected "against a dangerous rise in prices in the interval before normal economic forces are working." "Proper provision should be made to extend the life of OPA for a period not to exceed one year," the board said in a re port to President Truman. T Bi.lBa 4Uf th!. ! . du, ,iu, uiu noo .iic unanimous sentiment of the board as embodied in a resolu tion adopted yesterday. The board includes representatives of business, agriculture and la bor. , Fire Checked At Pinehurst The little settlement of Pine hurst, long known to Klamath residents as the half-way mark between Medford and Klamath Falls on highway No. 66, was threatened by fire Tuesday when a four-acre blaze started behind the buildings. Before the fire could be brought under control it had destroyed six cabins and an automobile. The main build ing, at one time used as an Inn, was undamaged. The flames, which quickly spread through four acres ot small pine trees, were spotted at 9:45 a. m. by the Parker moun tain lookout. Although the fire was in the Medford district the Klamath Forest Protective asso ciation sent fire fighters to the scene. The Penny Springs and Weyerhaeuser fire crews joined the Medford crew in fighting the fire. The blaze was brought under control at 10:55 a. m. The exact amount of damage was not esti mated by the Klamath Forest Aosnrintinn ax the fira wan nut of its district. Origin of the fire Is not known. Frost Injures Grain In Tulelake Fields TULELAKE, July 17 Some grain damage, due to recent frosts and cold nights, has been reported from the Tulelake area by growers. It is too early to determine the amount of dam age, but It is considered fairly heavy. Coldest night in early July sent the thermometer down to 27 degrees, it was learned, and not only has grain felt the dam age but growth to potato vines has been retarded In spotted areas. ' Grain harvest Is expected to tart in mid-August.